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Republican Jeff Landry, who has labeled climate change ‘a hoax’, has elevated fossil fuel executives to key environmental posts

In his first four weeks in office, Louisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, has filled the ranks of state environmental posts with executives tied to the oil, gas and coal industries.

Landry, who has labeled climate change “a hoax”, has also taken aim at the state’s climate taskforce for possible elimination as part of a sweeping reorganization of Louisiana’s environmental bureaucracy. The goal, according to Landry’s executive order, is to “create a better prospective business climate”.

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Companies worldwide set a new record in publicly announced solar and wind energy contracts in 2023, driven by improving economics in key regions like Europe and imminent company clean energy goals, according to BloombergNEF (BNEF). 

PM2.5 from heating homes using solid fuel such as wood increased by 19% from 2021 to 2022, data shows

A rise in harmful emissions from wood-burning stoves has cancelled out decreases in particulate pollution from road and energy sources in the UK, government data reveals.

Emissions of PM2.5 from domestic combustion – heating homes using solid fuel such as wood – increased by 19% between 2021 and 2022, counteracting efforts made to travel and produce commercial energy in less polluting ways.

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The world’s first climate-focused guarantee company is looking to transform the perception that green investments in the developing world are risky - by encouraging the international private sector to jump in, and helping domestic borrowers secure better financing.

South Korea on Wednesday sold close to two-thirds of the CO2 allowances up for sale at its monthly auction, which cleared below the secondary market but up compared to last month’s sale.

Indonesia’s uptake of renewable energy is too slow and the country is unlikely to meet its own targets, according to a report from a think tank released Wednesday.

It may be bigger than a large city - but the world's biggest iceberg can still turn on a sixpence.

Voluntary carbon certification body Gold Standard has opened a consultation on a methodology for crediting on-site waste processing to avoid methane emissions caused by organic matter being sent to landfills.

A Switzerland-based carbon removal developer has entered into an offtake agreement to provide Microsoft with 27,600 tonnes of durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) over the course of six years.

India’s largest carbon offset developer has inaugurated the first of several planned biomass fuel plants in the country to promote clean energy and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, it announced Wednesday.

Australia would be a “banana republic” if it bowed to international pressure from its trading partners over its climate policies, such as the Safeguard Mechanism, Professor Ross Garnaut has told Carbon Pulse.

A Japanese petroleum supplier is offering its corporate clients to buy carbon credits to offset their petrol and diesel oil.

It is hoped the creation of a marshland site will be a "corridor" for wildlife including wading birds.

On an oceanic quest in the southern hemisphere, our writer encounters the only albatross species endemic to Australia

As one seabird enthusiast once proclaimed: “Real birds eat fish.” That was certainly true of the species I was hoping to encounter on my first oceanic quest in the southern hemisphere.

A dozen of us boarded the first Sydney Pelagics trip of the year, chugging out of the famous harbour early one January morning. We soon left the silver gulls and crested terns behind, before coming across the first of a quintet of shearwaters: wedge-tailed, short-tailed, flesh-footed, Hutton’s and a single streaked, a scarce visitor from Japan.

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The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has successfully translocated 21 eastern black rhinos to a region where they have been extinct for 50 years. Here’s how they caught, transported and released these critically endangered 1,400kg creatures to their new home

• Just two northern white rhinos remain. The species’ first IVF pregnancy could save them from extinction

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Daan Walter from RMI on the phenomenal growth of battery storage. Plus: Victoria blackouts, Eraring, and the rabble against renewables.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: The battery domino effect appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Recycling was a big theme for round 15 of these grants, which are for research ideas that can be commercialised.

The post Solar, battery recycling, hydrogen tech snag latest CRC grants appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It will likely take some time to fully understand the events after an intense storm tore down at least six transmission towers in Victoria. But one thing is for sure - it was not the fault of "woke" renewables.

The post AGL and AEMO search for answers on Loy Yang outage, but “woke” energy not to blame appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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